Conscious Quotes

• To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Change, Decision, Cybernetics

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• Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

  Jane Goodall

  Differences, Choices, Making A Difference

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

  Nick Morgan

  Powerful, Mind, Definitions

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.

  George Harrison

  Karma, Building Up, Helping

  "Why being a Beatle was not enough". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2001.

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• Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Motivational, Trust

  "Words of Wisdom : More Good Advice" edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, (p. 199), 1990.

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• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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• A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Choices, Chance

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 21, 2015

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• We make conscious choices to do something a certain way.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

  Alan Watts

  Focus, Ego, Attention

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.21, Sounds True

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• There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

  Mencius

  Self, Delight, Examination

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.345

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• To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Knowledge, Intelligent

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 5, 1845.

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• I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Inability, Details, Development

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Perception, Kingdoms, Kind

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.194, Penguin

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• I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Education, Powerful, Writing

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

  Mike Epps

  Real, Labels, Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

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• From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

  Pope John Paul II

  Choices, Humanity, Policy

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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• In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious

  Tina Turner

  Buddhism, Rhythm, Subconscious

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• It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

  Henry James

  Acceptance, Thinking, Self

  1879 Hawthorne, ch.6.

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• The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Reality, Waiting, Way To Live

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Real Friends, Dating

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1904). “The professor at the breakfast-table”

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• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Tasks, Belief

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Fate, Grandchildren

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